The New and Only – Chinese Rap Music

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Li Cun Shuo, Writer

The show Rap of China has grew pretty popular lately, and a few Chinese Rap songs grow with it. Those talented song makers came from different part of China and sang their rap in different dialects. As to today, it attracted tons of young population to watch the show and listen to HipHop music.

One of the reason people assumed that make this show so popular is that it is something people don’t commonly listen to. Especially for the young generation, they have been listening to western Hiphop and are very interested on how Chinese can perform differently with Rap. Three most known songs from this show are -1老大 , 2苦行憎 , and 3中二病 (Link down below).  Among these songs, two of which are sang in Mandarin, and one of which were sing in SiChuan dialect. Their author PG one, Gai, and Bridge gained reputation as the songs grow popular.

Some endowed the lyrics with these songs, Senior Jasmine Zhou said: “Most of their lyrics had stuck in my mind for the whole weekend”. Other like their melody, Senior Jordan Wang mention: “I don’t care what language it is in, I only like it when it’s catchy.”

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT4eVkgxTtg

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuqNddy1QbU

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuqNddy1QbU